Beginner Gardening: Let's see your ARBORS and TRELLISES !, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Polly - many times we have snow cover so don't think I'll be out there in the snow doing the pruning. Two years ago I decided to try cutting the Jackmaniis back in Nov. - Dec. just to see how they'd do and they were just as lush as ever so that's what I've been doing unless bad weather comes in too soon like last year when only one got done.

Vossner - we would not have bought a home with an HOA and the very few attempts to start one on our little peninsula have met with instant defeat. We did have one guest, on the 2005 garden tour, who insisted he could smell the manure in the compost. How odd since we don't put manure in it! I was glad to see him leave as he wouldn't let up on it.

The same people who go green with everything are often the ones who loathe compost piles. We have six of them and if people don't like them they can go go other gardens.